Are those who opposed military intervention against Assad in 2013, before the west turned its firepower on his Islamist extremist opponents, to blame?
In 1964 and 1972, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon had strong jobs numbers and were clear favorites for re-election on that basis, but their huge margins of victory also came about in part because they were running against extremist opponents who had little appeal to swing voters.
Both the current authoritarian regimes which seek perpetuation, and presumably religious extremist opponents rationalize increasing brutality and extermination on self-serving interpretations of theology and ideology.
It was Senator Hatch's daunting task to show that the nominee was not the extremist his opponents had described, but rather a person of comfortably mainstream views.
This was cited especially to "not risk being declared as extremists by opponents the day we form a government".
She assumed office shortly after a far-right extremist murdered opposition Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox, a vocal Brexit opponent, on June 16 , 2016
The campaign was marked by mudslinging, with Essebsi refusing to take part in a debate with Marzouki, claiming his opponent was "extremist".
But he is a more presentable candidate than the last Republican to run for a Colorado Senate seat, who compared homosexuality to alcoholism and said primary voters should back him over a female rival because he didn't wear high heels.Each candidate paints himself a paragon of reason and his opponent an extremist.
A Republican senator not known for fiery rhetoric called his runoff opponent an "extremist".
Wilson used the notoriety to raise a lot of money, and he became a folk hero on the populist right, but the incident gave Democrats an opportunity to portray Obama's opponents as extremist ideologues, and even as racists.
